Netflix stuff, but Peakyblinders. Brilliant gangster series set in post world war I Birmingham, one of the best things I've seen for years.
I'm not really into football, but enjoyedLeicester's Imposible Dream on the BBC last nighthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07c6lwhnicely explained and put togetheronly available for 7 days - presumable because of viewing rights for the football
I've got five or six episodes saved up for a binge...
I was a bit disappointed by the man in the high castle - good production values, nice ideas, but felt the main actors were a bit average - or rather their characters rather unbekievable/hard to relate/warm to etc...
Gomorrah is back
Anyone looking to fill the GoT void left in their lives. A good suggestion would be Preacher, which is 5 episodes into the first season. Based I believe on a comic (I'm not familiar with). Enjoyed it so far. Dark humour and weird.Season 2 of Mr. Robot starts soon too.
Season 2 of Mr. Robot starts soon too.
The new Robot Wars is really good. My memories of watching it as a kid are of it being a glorified shoving match, with a few really good robots and lots of really crap ones - the armour being much more developed than the weaponry such that the only way to reliably win was to shove the other thing in the pit or flip it out of the arena.It seems that this has now changed and in the past decade the batteries and motors have become vastly more powerful. Remember that Hypno-Disc thing from the original series? That flywheel weighed about 18Kg and spun at 500rpm. In the new series there's a thing with a spinning bar weapon - the bar weighs 25Kg and spins at 2500rpm. When it gets up to full speed it fills the arena with a sound known as the "Death Hum". When it drives into other robots it literally rips them to shreds and both 110Kg robots ricochet violently off each other like they weigh nothing. Huge chunks of shrapnel flying everywhere. When I was watching it I found myself wondering whether the producers of the show were shitting themselves, wondering whether two layers of bullet proof material was enough to protect the audience.It's bloody brilliant.